Geeze people. Wait for the ultrasound. Know what? Even an ultrasound tech can be wrong. Don’t sweat it. If your hubby is going to divorce you in part because his own sperm caused his baby to be a gender he doesn’t like, hey lady, this guy wasn’t worth his sperm anyway.

If you’re not receiving a promised refund, by all means, sue if you have the luxury of putting yourself through that trouble, but only seek the refund and your legal fees. If you have broader evidence the kit doesn’t work, make that case. Don’t give us a sob story about your marriage.

We waited until our babies were born. The fun of hearing “it’s a boy” and “it’s a girl” from all the delivery room crew at birth was worth the wait. What a hassle and expense for something a little patience could tell you…who has that kind of money laying around anyway? Not anyone that i know.

With our first child we found out the gender at around 26 weeks (boy) via ultrasound. In retrospect, I think the reason I wanted to know the gender had more to do with calming my nerves than decorating the nursery. There were complications during that pregnancy, half of the time the doctor’s didn’t know what was going on and I just really needed some bit of factual info to cling to amongst all the uncertainty.

Knowing the gender amidst all of the unknown medical issues really calmed my nerves. (I know now that ultrasound techs can make mistakes, but I didn’t really know that then.)

With our second, we decided not to find out the gender. There were complications with the second pregnancy as well but this time around, the complications reinforced the idea that the gender didn’t matter; only the baby’s health mattered.

The delivery room doctor and nurses were so excited to hear that we didn’t know the gender…l guess that doesn’t happen much these days.

we waited until 20 weeks to find out the sex of our child through the ultrasound. however, the technician spent 15 minutes trying to uncover the sex to no avail. my girlfriend was so disappointed that we decided to opt for the 3d ultrasound yet they STILL weren’t able to tell!

Ultrasound techs in Vancouver, BC aren’t allowed to say anything about the gender because someone sued the hospital after being given the incorrect gender.
We opted not to find out until our baby was born. We had one friend who could not understand this decision and at least once a month she would ask if we had found out yet. Once when I said “We aren’t going to find out.” She said “EVER?!?!” like it was the worst thing in the world. I said, “No. We are going to have the midwife slap a diaper on really quickly and not tell us, and then we’ll just close our eyes when we change the diapers. I figure, when the kid is old enough, it can decide for itself.” and she said, “Really?” Sadly, that wasn’t the last time she asked.

Ditto what the pp said about these tests being wrong almost 1/2 the time, imagine that! We had a couple polls on our pregnancy site with over 40 women who had done the tests responding. I think it came out just under 60% accurate with those who took the poll. Waste of money!

That is REALLY silly… Do these people sue and divorce their spouses every time *anything* unexpected happens to them?

We found out our daughter’s sex at the 20-week ultrasound, figuring it would be just as fun a surprise then as at birth. We picked a backup boy name just in case the ultrasound view was wrong, though– ours turned out to be right, but we’ve known enough people whose ultrasounds were misleading to not to count on it 100%.